Little house on a hill
This house reminds me of the reason George Carlin likes beach front property —
Because you only have a@#holes on three sides of you.
{ Daily Archives }
March 1st, 2007
Truisms - Great Truths Learned as a Child
| 1. | No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptise cats. |
| 2. | When your mom is mad at your dad, don’t let her brush your hair. |
| 3. | If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person. |
| 4. | Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato. |
| 5. | You can’t trust dogs to watch your food. |
| 6. | Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair. |
| 7. | Never hold a dust-buster and a cat at the same time. |
| 8. | You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. |
| 9. | Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. |
| 10. | The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap. |
Looks Like We Aren’t the Only Ones Playing With Math
Discover Magazine has posted a contest to create a video explaining String Theory in under two minutes.
I’d enter this, but string theory is pretty much gibberish to me. Maybe they should have a contest to explain what string theory is used for. That might be a hoot.
Mathematics on a rampage ~ Albert Einstein
Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater.
Math and Religion
Kabbalah is very Math heavy. But it’s a weird kind of statistical anomoly math. I found this page on Math and Kabbalah. I have to say, a lot of it looks a little made up.
Although I didn’t see it on this particular website I have seen lots of reference to the “Bible Code” where people use the mathematical system outlined to tell the future. However, nearly all of the predictions are a little Nostradamus like, incredibly vague until after some event and then the relevant details are filled in. I find it amazing that a book meant as a history and moral guidebook would also take the time to talk about the minutae of daily life 3,000-5,000 years after it was written.
Kabbalah is rather intimately involved in Mathematics. I wonder how much of that was exposure of the early Jews to Pythagoras? Or if some Jewish Mathematician was doodling around and started to notice patterns if you changed letters to numbers. Next thing you know there’s a new secret society in town.
Tune in tomorrow when we look at the math of chaos.
